Vegetarian Health Benefits

For starters, Vegetarianism has many benefits, from reducing your carbon footprint to saving money on every retail trip to a more vibrant color palette on your plate. But it provides vegetarian health benefits that most people find interesting. Every day on TV, magazines, news, light talk, you hear about how eating a vegetarian diet is better than the American Standard Diet (SAD). Although there are many benefits to vegetarian health, 5 always looks great.

Improved Heart Health - Did you know that meat eaters are 15% more likely to die from heart attacks than vegetarians. Why not? Because meat has a lot of fat, not many good doctors tell you what to eat. The fat is saturated and likes to clog the arteries. Not to mention that meat, especially beef has low levels of LDL (low density lipids) or bad cholesterol. Because vegetarian diets do not have animal meat, they also lack saturated fat and cholesterol, which leads to better heart health

Lower incidence of cancer - Current studies show that vegetarians have a 12% less chance of getting cancer than meat eaters. Health experts point to high fiber, low saturated fat, and higher antioxidant intake in fruits and vegetables that block cancer cells.

Less likely to get pain from your diet - Remember swine flu? What about cow-like disease? Animals are very good at carrying diseases, diseases that you may eat with the steak. Since the advent of industrial farms, it has been easier for diseases to spread to humans due to poor conditions in the fields leading to fecal-oral transmission. While vegetarians are not completely immune to foodborne illness, you do not have to worry about any contracts unless you cook vegetables. The same cannot be said of meat.

Lack of toxins in your diet - While vegetarians need to deal with pesticides on food, they do not, compared to the levels of toxins and heavy metal meat eaters need to be addressed. Mercury in fish, rBST and other growth hormones in cattle, PCB in sheep ... the list goes on. And in some cases, freezing or cooking foods will not remove these chemicals from your diet.

Figure Slim - When you think of a vegetarian, do you think of a fat person? Most likely not. Since vegetarians are not filled with high levels of animal protein and calories, weight gain is not an easy task. In fact, vegetarians eat an average of 500 calories less than their meat counterparts. Remember, every 3,500 calories equals pounds. Think about how much weight you can lose in a week by going a healthy vegetarian route!

Vegetarian Health Benefits


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